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Each year in sports where talent peaks at an early age there occurs a recruiting war among colleges to attract as many senior high school stars as possible. It happens in most women's sports but is particularly apt with racquet sports...
Just as important, he is making it clear to the other senior players that Reagan's views must be paramount. As a decision is hatching, Clark in his slow, deliberate manner is apt to punctuate the conversation by asking: "Mr. President, is that what you want to do?" On the afternoon of Sunday, Jan. 10, as Assistant Secretary of State John Holdridge was en route to Peking, Reagan talked to Clark from Camp David. They discussed the statement concerning U.S. plans to sell more F-5 fighters to Taiwan that Holdridge was about to present. But Reagan was uneasy...
...volunteer fireman to avenge himself with a carefully misdirected extinguisher on the house that rejected him. On an idyllic holiday in Wales, little Sylvia and a friend come terrifyingly close to burying another child in the sand. With chilling serenity the memoirist comments, "Children driven good are apt to be driven...
...plastered on the wall of a Warsaw train station last week showed Jaruzelski as a blind man, wearing his customary dark glasses and feeling his way along with a white stick. The mocking caption: LEADER, LEAD US. For all its cruel imagery and satirical intent, the drawing is an apt image of the general's predicament. Although he has subdued all overt opposition by force, Jaruzelski is groping his way, amid formidable problems, toward a very uncertain future for Poland. -By Thomas A. Sancton. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Warsaw and Johanna McGeary with Haig
Common among the jobless is a sense of being condemned to uselessness in a world that worships the useful. Out-of-work people who do not develop such feelings on their own are apt to be given them when they visit the unemployment office: there the applicant is more often treated like an alien culprit in need of interrogation than an unlucky citizen in need of assistance. Says a young writer who was among the anonymous hundreds that Harry Maurer taped for the oral history Not Working: "I always get the feeling that the people at the umemployment office think...